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Class #10 we did mostly revisions. Here's some of the thing we learnt.

Vocabulary

qǐ chuáng : get up, wake up v.
chī : eat v.
chī fàn : have a meal
zǎo fàn : breakfast n.
wǔ fàn : lunch n.
wǎn fán : supper, dinner n.
shuì jiào : sleep v.
guì : expensive adj.
pián yī : cheap adj.
(yì) diǎn : a little bit
bīng gùn : pop cycle
zhá shǔ tiáo : french fries
huā shēng mǐ : peanuts
táng : sugar, candy
bǐng gān : biscuit
dàn gāo : cake
bíng qí líng : ice cream
sūan nǎi : yogurt
niú nǎi : milk
miàn báo : bread
jú zi zhī : orange juice
shuǐ guǒ : fruit
jī dàn : egg
guǒ jiàng : jam
yù mǐ pián : corn flake, cereal
chá : tea
huáng yóu : butter
sān mīng zhì : sandwich
miàn tiáo : noddle
chǎo fán : fried rice
dàn gāo : cake
shā lā : salad
tāng : soup
niú ròu : beef
yú : fish
bāo zi : pao
yá gāo : toothpaste
xǐ fà jì : shampoo
féi zào : soap
mián zhǐ : tissue paper
wèi shēng zhǐ : toilet paper
xiáng shuǐ : perfume
shū zi : comb
tóu shuā : hair brush

Change the questions into affirmative-negative form.

1. tā shì nǐ de lǎoshī mā ? (he/she is your teacher?)
tā shì bú shì nǐ de lǎoshī (he is or isn't your teacher)

2. nǐ de shūshū hěn gāo mā ? (your uncle really tall?)
nǐ de shūshū gāo bú gāo (your uncle tall or not tall)

3. nǐ shì wénlái rén mā ? (you are bruneian?)
nǐ shì bú shì wénlái rén (you are or aren't bruneian)

4. xiānggǎng shì gè xiǎo dì4fāng mā ? (xianggang is small place?)
xiānggǎng shì bú shì xiǎo dì4fāng (xianggang is or isn't a small place)

5. xiàgèyuè nǐ xiǎng qù běijīng mā ? (next month you want to go beijing?)
xiàgèyuè nǐ xiǎng bú xiǎng běijīng (next month you want to or not go beijing)

6. nián nǐ guò zhōngguò mā ? (last year you went china?)
nián nǐ méi guò zhōngguò (last year you went or not to china)

7. jīntiān zāoshang nǐ chī guò zǎofàn mā ? (today early morning you eaten breakfast?)
jīntiān zāoshang nǐ chī méi chī guò zǎofàn (today early morning you eaten or not breakfast)

8. míngtiān xiàwǔ wǒmen hē kāfēi ? (tomorrow afternoon we go drink coffee?)
míngtiān xiàwǔ wǒmen bú hē kāfēi (tomorrow afternoon we go or not drink coffee)

9. zhōngwǔ diǎn tāmen chī guò wǔfàn le ? (12 noon they go eaten lunch?)
zhōngwǔ diǎn tāmen méi guò chī wǔfàn (12 noon they gone or not eat lunch)

10. wǒmen chīfàn hǎo mā ? (we go have meal ok?)
wǒmen chīfàn hǎo bú hǎo (we go have meal ok or not)

I haven't update lesson #7, #8 and #9. Will do it slowly. BTW... tomorrow is my mandarin examination. I hope I'll pass the exam but I just started my revision this afternoon.

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I went to gym around 9am this morning. The missus and Syaza coming back later afternoon from their KL trip. In the gym, I saw few bloggers namely Adidarwish, Aunidayini and Mr. BR.

Below is my run summary :

Speed against time
8.5km/h for 0 - 15 minutes
8.7km/h for 15 - 25 minutes
9.0km/h for 25 - 37 minutes
*** lower leg felt weak, walk at 5.0km/h for 2 minutes
8.3km/h for 39 - 50 minutes
10.0km/h for 50 - 55 minutes
9.0km/h for 55 - 59 minutes
13.0km/h for 59 - 60 minutes

Location : JPMC Gym
Distance : 8.64 KM
Time : 60 minutes
Inclination : 1.0
Calories burn : 702

+ 5 minutes cool down period, see picture

Nike+iPod Chart

Morning run

I don't usually run in the morning. Today, I got to run in the morning as afternoon I'm tied up with my work. However, I didn't feel that good today. I still can feel my stomach gastric from yesterday.

Below is my run summary :

Speed against time
8.5km/h for 0 - 30 minutes
9.0km/h for 30 - 35.15 minutes
*** walk for 10 minutes at 5.0km/h

Location : JPMC Gym
Distance : 5 KM

Time : 35.15 minutes

Inclination : 1.0
Calories burn : 410

+ 10 minutes walk at 5.0km/h, see picture

Nike+iPod Chart

YouTube vs Metacafe

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Was having breakfast with this guy today. One of the subject matter we talk about was video services in internet.

I've been using YouTube to host all the video I posted in my blog. He suggested me to have a look at Metacafe. I registered myself to Metacafe this afternoon, unfortunately I haven't been able to successfully upload my own video to test it out. I try it out from office and home still no success.

Anyway, those of you interested to see the collection of videos I've uploaded to my YouTube account, you can click here. I'm also putting "My YouTube" link in the right sidebar under "My zone".

Empire cinema movie goers. Here's the movie schedules from 15th to 21st March 2007. Click on the image to enlarge.
Cinema 1Cinema 2Cinema 3
Opening : Fly Boys (17th), Mr. Bean (22nd)
Sneaks : Stomp The Yard (16th to 21st)

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Tired

I'm basically feeling tired for past few days already. I need to catch-up on my sleep. I haven't had enough sleep for past few days and work is piling up more and more. I also have a stiff neck for past couple of days. I need to fix my neck problem. Need to go to Pearl Health and get a massage.

On the other matters.
  1. My mandarin class just completed last Monday. Examination is next Monday. I need to do some revision. I also need to post Class #7, #8, #9 and #10 to my blog.
  2. The Missus and Syaza on shopping trip to KL.

Graduation Day

I don't know what to post today. In fact this whole week, I'm trying to workout what am I going to post for this whole week. I'm not sure if can squeeze in any running from today to next Tuesday as my work schedules is fully occupied even on Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully the client change some of the schedules.

Anyway, the missus went to "Kadai Komunis" 3 weeks back to convert two video tapes to VCD format. The first tape was her graduation day and the second tape was our wedding ceremony. Here's the graduation day clip of her and her classmates. You might recognise one of her classmate.
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (1997)

4th Nike+iPod Run

Nike+iPod Chart
Yesterday I was feeling abit tired to do some exercise. Da missus want to join me to the gym if I'm going. Finally I decided just go to the gym so she can do her exercise.

I didn't do any calibration walk or run. Half-way through my run I decided not to complete the one hour instead just do a 5km run.

Location : JPMC Gym
Distance : 5 KM
Time : 33.23 minutes
Inclination : 1.0
Calories burn : 400

walk for half a minute before pressing the cool down button.

Notes :
  • To my suprise, I heard annoucement from "Lance Armstrong" for doing my best mile.
  • I stop my iPod around one minute before the treadmill stop. The distance reading is totally off.

300

It's been quite a while I've not go to watch a movie at the cinema. The last movie I went and watch was Casino Royale.

Last night, me and da missus decided to watch 300 at the Empire cinema. I didn't see the movie reviews or trailers before that. I only saw the 300 movie posters. I thought this might be a good action movie.

What is it all about?
It's about 300 Spartan soldiers the King takes to save his nation to fight Xerxes and the massive Persian army. The Spartan soldiers is simply amazing. They are very brave, strong and everyone is like a body builder.

You got to watch the movie to find out more. However, if you want to see the trailers you can click here.


Also be prepare to see lots of heads, legs, arms being chop off. It's R rated.
King Leonidas and Xerxes
Thousands of spears being thrown to the Spartan soldiers
The Queen

3rd Nike+iPod Run

Started out with 1km calibration walk then stop and restart the treadmill. Not much thing to say regarding my run today, I was just trying to take the run easy. The guy beside me was doing 11km in under one hour. Amazing!!!!!

Check out my run summary below :


Speed against time
8.7km/h for 0 - 30 minutes
9.0km/h for 30 - 35 minutes

9.2km/h for 35 - 40 minutes
9.5km/h for 40 - 55 minutes

10km/h for 55 - 60 minutes

*** 9km in 59.42 minutes

Location : JPMC Gym
Distance : 9.10 KM
Time : 60 minutes
Inclination : 1.0
Calories burn : 720

+ 5 minutes cool down period, see picture
Nike+iPod Chart
Comparing treadmill and Nike+iPod readings, the distance measurement is almost the same now. However the calories burn reading shows a big difference. So which one is correct?

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Empire cinema movie goers. Here's the movie schedules for today and tomorrow.

Movie schedules
Telephone : 2417977

Today I did my second Nike+iPod run. I started out with 1KM calibration run then stop and restart the treadmill. I also felt hungry before starting the run. Half way through the run I felt my energy level was low due to the empty stomach. I didn't run all the way for 60 minutes. Check out my run summary below :

Speed against time

8.7km/h for 0 - 20 minutes

9.0km/h for 20 - 22 minutes

9.2km/h for 22 - 24 minutes

9.4km/h for 24 - 26 minutes

9.6km/h for 26 - 28 minutes

9.8km/h for 28 - 35 minutes

9.5
km/h for 35 - 38.40 minutes
** 6KM completed, walk at 5.6km/h pace
8.7km/h for 45 - 58 minutes

10km/h for 58 - 59 minutes

12km/h for 59 - 59.30 minutes

14km/h for 59.30 - 60 minutes


Location : JPMC Gym
Distance : 8.80 KM
Time : 60 minutes
Inclination : 1.0
Calories burn : 702

+ 5 minutes cool down period, see picture

Nike+iPod Chart
Note :

The reading from my Nike+iPod is still not the same as the treadmill display. The Nike+iPod reading show I'm doing 8.91KM which is 110 metre faster than the treadmill reading!

Next run, I'm going to do a calibration walk again.

I didn't go to the gym from Sunday to Wednesday. I guess this affected my running performance. After 45 minutes of running my body was feeling very tired. I was forcing myself to hang-on and finish the 60 minutes run.

As mention in my previous post, I started out with two calibration (walk and run). I did it on the smaller treadmill as the bigger one was fully occupied. During the calibration walk I notice the readings on my iPod is faster than what is display on the treadmill. I'm assuming that the treadmill is accurate. I'm confident my walk calibration is set properly, however half way through my calibration run I realise I didn't actually remember what distance on the treadmill display I started my run. I didn't want to restart the calibration so I just guess when to stop the 1K calibration.

After both calibrations is set, I stop and wait for someone to finish their run on the bigger treadmill. Well it was just a 5 minutes wait.

Checkout my run summary :

Speed against time
5.0km/h for 30 seconds
8.5km/h for 30 secs - 15 minutes

8.7km/h for 15 - 20 minutes

9.0
km/h for 20 - 30 minutes
** towel on display at 25 minutes point. Good thing the iPod announce the run time every 5 minutes. I was only looking at the running speed till the 55 minutes point.
9.2km/h for 30'17" - 40'17" minutes
9.5km/h for 40'17"- 55'17" minutes

10km/h for 55'17" - 59'30" minutes

14km/h for 59'30" - 60 minutes
*** 9km in 59.40 minutes

Location : JPMC Gym
Distance : 9.12 KM
Time : 60 minutes
Inclination : 1.0
Calories burn : 720

+ 5 minutes cool down period, see picture

Below the Nike+iPod results. It's showing that I did 9.65km in 60 minutes. That's 530 metre difference. Next session, I will do a calibration run first. I don't think I need to do the calibration walk again.
First Nike+iPod Run

Nike+iPod

I just got this Nike+iPod last Tuesday. I'm thinking of going for a run today at the gym after work. Here's the plan :

1. Do a calibration run also to check whether the measurement is correct. Here's how I plan to do it.
  • 1KM run at 8.5KM/H
  • 1KM walk at 5.0KM/H
2. Once calibration is set, go for a one hour run..... hopefully!
Nike+iPod
BTW... I got this for free. Thanks to one of my blog visitor. Next time I "belanja" you makan. Checkout here and here to see how's the result of the run will look like.

Syaza was in the Tuesday Borneo Bulletin. She is currently studying Kindergarten 2, Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Kindergarten School.
Picture taken from Borneo Bulletin Online
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I have overseas business partners this week. Last night, they requested me to bring them to the Singing Waitress place for dinner.

It was a good dinner and the guests seems to enjoy the entertainment. Check out a couple of videos below I took last night and btw...
one of my guest is Mr. Singapore 2003. You can check out more of his photo here.

Mr. Singapore 2003 & Singing Waitress


Yee Fong


My dessert - Mango with Vanilla Ice Cream


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Caught on camera!

Bruneian and me were having our brunch at Coffee Zone Kiulap today. Both of us were "Caught on camera!". Check it out here.

I just went and visited simpur website tonight. Just know that they have a New Simpur Portal and temporarily move to a new site address. The portal address is at www.dst-group.com/simpur.

One of the section which caught my attention is the "Show us what you drive!" competion. I saw some cars and a motorbike photos already display. I'm thinking why not!!!!..... So I decided to email them my car photo. Most popular photos will win a brand new Digital Camera from Simpur!

Now, I'm just wondering what "Digital Camera" is it..... Here's the photo and short description I email them.
Peugeot 206cc
Short description
Convertible, automatic roof, sporty, leather seat and half the price of other European brand. It's really fun to drive.

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I missed last Monday (26th Feb 2007) evening class. However, I did manage to join the second group class the next day.


Good thing is that the Mandarin class were split into 2 groups. First group, Monday and Wednesday evening. Second group, Tuesday and Thursday evening. Below were what we learnt.

Adjective


:big adj
xiǎo : small, young adj
měi : beautiful, pretty adj
hǎo : good, nice adj
huài : bad adj
lǎo : old adj
yuǎn : far adj
jìn : near adj
duō : many, lots of adj
shǎo : few adj
gāo : tall adj
ǎi : short in height adj
pàng : fat, chubby adj
shǒu : thin, skinny adj

dì fāng : place n

dà dì fāng, xiǎo dì fāng, lǎorén, xiǎo péngyou
hǎorén, rénduō, rénshǎo, měirén, hǎo péngyǒu

nián : year n
yuè : month n
(or) hào : day n
xīngqī (or) lībài : week n
zǎo : early adj
wǎn : late adj

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Train ride

Syaza and Fa'iz on a train ride during the Rizqun day

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I went to gym slightly earlier than usual as I don't want to be caught in the same situation as last week. Stretch for 5 minutes, concentrating more on the calf muscles. I want to make sure I run 60 minutes non-stop not like yesterday. Check out my run summary below :

Speed against time
8.5km/h for 0-30 minutes
9.0km/h for 30-40 minutes
9.5km/h for 40-56 minutes
*** towel on display
10km/h for 57-58 minutes
*** towel off
11.1km/h for 58-59 minutes
12.2km/h for 59-60 minutes

Location : JPMC Gym
Distance : 8.98 KM
Time : 60 minutes
Inclination : 1.0
Calories burn : 740

+ 5 minutes cool down period, see picture

Empire cinema movie goers. Here's the movie schedules for today and tomorrow.

Movie schedules
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Today's run was not bad. However couple of times I feel my calf muscles abit tight. Pause a couple of times during the run just to stretch the lower legs.

Speed against time
8.5km/h for 0-15 minutes
8.6km/h for 15-17 minutes
8.7km/h for 17-30 minutes
paused 20 seconds, leg stretching
9.0km/h for 30-40 minutes
paused 20 seconds, leg stretching
*** this is the time I put my towel on the display so no one can peek how many minutes I've run
8.5km/h for 40-56 minutes
9km/h for 56-57 minutes
10.1km/h 57-58 minutes
11.1km/h 58-60 minutes

Location : JPMC Gym
Distance : 8.78 KM
Time : 60 minutes
Inclination : 1.0
Calories burn : 728

+ 5 minutes cool down period, see picture

Minh Thai

Minh Thai is the 1st place winner for the First Rubiks Cube World Championship that was held in Budapest, Hungary. The winning time was 22.95 seconds. Got this video from Ron Van Bruchem.
Minh Thai solving in 22.95


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Short run

Today I had the shortest run I ever had this year. Ran just 3KM in 21 minutes (200 calories). The big treadmills was fully occupied, so I decided to use the smaller treadmill.

Anyway, I went to the gym this morning to register the group membership. To all my group members, you need to collect your membership card yourself at the gym counter. Please bring a photocopy of your IC along. Just tell them under "reza" group.

Bruneian also decided to go for a swim this afternoon. I believe this is the first time Bruneian go to the JPMC gym. Show him the place and the facilities available there. Hope he enjoy his swim!

This month, I didn't do as much running compare to last month. All my run were done indoor i.e. JPMC gym treadmill. Below are my run statistics for this month. This figures exclude the 5 minutes cool down period at the end of each run.


Running time
Running distanceCalories burn during running
Summary :

Total running distances : 63.14 KM
Total running time : 7 hours 3 minutes
Total calories burn during run : 5,123

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Happy 2nd Birthday
to
Muhammad 'Aqiel Sya'fie bin Reza Faizal
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Checkout some of the shutterbugs I saw during the National Day Celebration.




Tonight I stumble upon this blog site and this lady manage to caught me!

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I went for my Mandarin class last Wednesday. Below is what I've learnt.

Adverb

Word place in front of verb.
Subjective + Adverb + Verb + Objective

In class #4 we learn and dōu

: also, as well, too
dōu : all, both

for class #5 we learn one more adverb (
hěn)
hěn : very much
hěn normally use with the word xiǎng

xiǎng
i. want to i.e. want to do something
ii. think about i.e. think about something
iii. miss i.e. miss somebody

xiǎng yi xiǎ
thing for a while

xiǎng yi xiǎng
think about it again

wǒ hěn xiǎng xiǎng yi xiǎng
I really want to think about it

xiǎn shēng : mr, sir
xiǎo jiě : miss, young lady
yéye : grandpa (father side)
wài gong : grandpa (mother side)
nǎi nai : grandma (father side)
wài pó : grandma (mother side)
dàgē : big brother (however if inside a family dàgē refer to the eldest brother)
dàjiě : big sister
shūshū : uncle from father side
gūgu : aunty from father side
jiù jiù : uncle from mother side
āyí : aunty from mother side
xiǎo péng yǒu : little friend, always refer to little boys and girls
fú wù yuán : waiter or waitress

Verbal particle
(words by itself have no meaning but when use with other word gives a meaning)
e.g. guò

wǒ qù zhōng guó
I go to China

wǒ qù guò zhōng guó
I have been to China

wǒ méi qù guò zhōng guó
I have never been to China

fēiji : plane
huǒ chē : train, railway
gōng gòng qìchē : public bus
gōng chē : bus
chuán : boat, ferry, ship
zìxíng chē : bike

chéng : take, by
: take, by
: ride by
zuò : sit down, take, by

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I just found out this week that my blog doesn't look the way it should be in Internet Explorer (IE). I use Firefox to surf the internet, updating and designing my blog. My blog should have 3 columns when view using Firefox however when I check it with IE, the middle column wasn't there. Instead, it was below the right most column. This is just one of the issue, I notice couple more things I need to fix. Oh man... got to look at the HTML code and fix it.
FirefoxInternet Explorer
I just wonder what my regular readers use to see this blog?

Attended the National Day Grand Celebration this morning. Manage to take some photos and videos. Here are just few of them.
Ministry of Finance (Spot Mr. BR)Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports

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